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    Gene Sarazen (/ˈsɑːrəzɛn/; born Eugenio Saraceni, February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players...
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  • and television personality Gene Robillard (1929-2007), Canadian football player Gene Sarazen (1902–1999), American golfer Gene Simmons (born 1949), Israeli-American...
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  • to commence play. These have included Fred McLeod, Jock Hutchinson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player,...
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    world's top professional golfers have used Wilson equipment, including Gene Sarazen (who had a 75-year relationship with the company, the longest-running...
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    the PGA Championship. The other four are Nicklaus, Woods, Player, and Gene Sarazen. Hogan's first major win came at age 34. Golf.com proclaimed, "Ben is...
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    professional golfers. Jones often beat stars such as Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, the era's top pros. Jones earned his living mainly as a lawyer, and...
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    career major wins and career PGA Tour wins. Woods is the fifth (after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus) player to achieve the career...
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    Craig Wood and Denny Shute. r Lawson Little won in a playoff against Gene Sarazen. s The U.S. Open was not held from 1942 to 1945 because of World War...
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    during his career. Five men: Nicklaus, Woods, Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen are the only golfers to have won all four of the majors during their...
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  • 1975: Jack Nicklaus 1926: Bobby Jones 1932: Gene Sarazen 1971: Lee Trevino 1982: Tom Watson 1922: Gene Sarazen 1948: Ben Hogan 1980: Jack Nicklaus 2018:...
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    when he won in 2021. The youngest winner of the PGA Championship is Gene Sarazen, who was 20 years, 174 days old when he won in 1922. David Toms holds...
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    could compete at the highest level of the game." When reporters there asked Gene Littler who the young golfer was that was cracking balls on the practice...
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  • British-born), and included three wins by amateur Bobby Jones, and one by Gene Sarazen, who had already won top tournaments in the United States. English players...
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  • winner: Phil Mickelson in 2021 (50 years, 11 months) Youngest winner: Gene Sarazen in 1922 (20 years, 174 days) Greatest winning margin in the match play...
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    golfer in history to win the Career Grand Slam, following Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen, and only Nicklaus and Woods have performed the feat since. He won over...
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    and 1945 Masters Tournaments were not held because of World War II. c Gene Sarazen won in a playoff against Craig Wood. d Byron Nelson won in a playoff...
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  • Shute 1,000 Colonial Fort Worth, Texas 1940 Lawson Little 287 −1 Playoff Gene Sarazen 1,000 Canterbury Beachwood, Ohio 1939 Byron Nelson 284 −4 Playoff Craig...
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    playoff record (3–6) European Tour playoff record (1–0) *Note: The 1985 Gene Sarazen Jun Classic was shortened to 54 holes due to rain. Asia Golf Circuit...
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    here for a short visit, so be sure to smell the flowers along the way." Gene Sarazen, who was ten years Hagen's junior commented, "All the professionals ...
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    finger of the bottom hand. Ouimet mentored and encouraged the young Gene Sarazen, who developed into one of golf's greatest champions. In 1949, a group...
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    were the winners of the first two Masters tournaments Horton Smith and Gene Sarazen, in 1934 and 1935 respectively. It was the first sudden-death playoff...
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  • Gary Player (1986, 1988, 1990) 2 wins: Jock Hutchison (1937, 1947), Gene Sarazen (1954, 1958), Paul Runyan (1961, 1962), Julius Boros (1971, 1977), Don...
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    starting tee shot at the Masters Tournament. Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson. In 2000, Snead was ranked the third...
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    youngest player, age 26 (his fifth year on Tour), and the only one after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, and Gary Player (until Tiger Woods at age 24 in 2000, also...
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    1916 Chick Evans# 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby...
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    1916 Chick Evans# 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby...
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    (78-71-76-76=301) Playoff 1 Harry Cooper 1930 PGA Championship n/a 1 up Gene Sarazen 1931 The Open Championship 5 shot deficit +8 (73-75-77-71=296) 1 stroke...
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    1916 Chick Evans# 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby...
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  • careers, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods. Woods and Nicklaus...
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    1916 Chick Evans# 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby...
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